[redelic]

I'm kinda new here and didn't know where to post about my problem. It is more of an all encompassing problem with my computer as a whole. I'm not sure if it is hardware or software that is the issue.

The main problem I'm having with my computer is that it takes it forever to accomplish things that should take a fraction of the amount of time it takes. Take for example restarting, my computer takes 1 hour and some change to restart and get to the point where it is done loading the handful of startup programs. I don't have an excessive amount of programs that start up with the computer. I think I have Catalyst Control Center, Avast!, Logitech software(for my G15 and G7), and Daemon Tools. That's all.

It takes between 5 and 10 minutes sometimes just to open up the My Computer window. It takes 2 times as long to open up World of Warcraft or any other game as well. It also takes an excessive amount of time to install/un-install anything. Basically, take any task that would need to be performed on a given computer and multiply the time it takes said computer to do it by between 2 and 5 times, and you will have about how long it takes my computer to do anything.

I posted this problem on the Spybot forums and the results came back that it wasn't a virus or anything of that nature affecting my computer so I don't know where else to turn to try and get this resolved. I could send it back to CyberPower, the company I purchased it from, but they are all the way on the other side of the US and the last time I sent something to them(my motherboard) it took them almost 4 months to get a new one to me.



Here are the specs for my computer:
-- CPU: (Socket AM2) AMD Athlontm64 X2 6000+ Dual-Core CPU
-- CD: COMBO DRIVE (16X DVD-ROM & 52x32x52 CD-RW)
-- HDD: Extreme Performance (RAID-0) with 2 Identical Hard Drives (640GB (320GBx2) SATA-II 3.0Gb/s 16MB Cache 7200RPM HDD
-- MOTHERBOARD: (Socket AM2)Asus M2R32-MVP AMD 580X Crossfire Chipset DDR800 Dual PCIE SATA RAID MB w/GbLAN,USB2.0,2xIEEE1394,&7.1Audio
-- MEMORY: (Req.DDR2 MainBoard)2GB (2x1GB) PC6400 DDR2/800 Dual Channel Memory
-- OS: Microsoft® Windows Vista Home Basic
-- VIDEO: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT PCI-E x16 1GB Video Card

If there is anything else I should post, DxDiag, HijackThis, etc. let me know and I will do so. Thanks in advance.

[BMR528]

Redelic

What does the CPU Usage read in Task manager? Is it alway 100%? If so find ouyt what program is doing that and stop it. Do you have a extremely large amount of disk drive activity? The raid system could be rebuilding itself, that could bring all things to a crawl. How about memory usage?

Also monitor the network usage in case you have a program trying to download from somewhere

That's where I could start at

[dodge_viper]

did you try booting in safe mode? ( to boot in safe mode press F8 after bios screen)
what happenes then?